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Book SynopsisThe brilliant and incisive new novel from the author of Lives Like Mine...A deeply affecting novel, In Bloom tells of strength, survival, forgiveness, resilience and determination, and the fierce love and unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters. Delph has kept herself small and quiet as a form of self-protection, ever since the love of her life Sol’s untimely death left her pregnant and alone at the age of twenty-four. Theirs was such a once-in-a-lifetime love, that the loss of her soulmate broke her heart ‒ and almost broke her, too.
Years on, Delph’s protective bubble bursts when her daughter Roche moves out of the flat Delph shares with her partner Itsy and in with her estranged nan, Moon. Now that it’s just the two of them, the cracks in Delph and Itsy’s relationship begin to grow. Feeling on the outside of the bond betw
Trade Review'This is a really powerful, beautifully written story about three generations of working class women with each character so vividly drawn that they leap off the page' * RED *
'Treat you head and heart to IN BLOOM. Tender, true, wise and warm but utterly unfliching. It's a book about art and family, love, memory, mental health and what it means to be ourselves which will stay with me always and haunt my thoughts in the most welcome way'
-- Rose Ruane
'A powerful mother-daughter tale' * CLOSER *
'I loved Verde's debut, LIVES LIKE MINE, and this is just as raw and insightful' * GOOD HOUSEKEEPING *
'A beautiful tale of resilience' * HEAT *
